Sermons Quotes
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I’ll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I’m writing all this down.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
William Feather
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
William Gilmore Simms -
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.
Abraham Lincoln -
On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Martin Luther -
There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
Albert Meltzer -
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
Antonio Vieira
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Stanley Hauerwas -
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.
Michael Emerson -
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
George Frederick Pentecost -
The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.
William Gurnall -
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
George Horace Lorimer -
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.
Martin Luther
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Harvey Cox -
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
Niecy Nash -
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
Michael Eric Dyson